Music Is A Central Part Of Most Adolescent Lives - 2846 Words

Music is a central part of most adolescent lives. In todays society music is a part of everyone’s daily activities. Certain genres contain frequent references to sex, drugs, and violence. Certain genres receive their fair share of bad media including crime. Everyone knows that music all by itself can have an effect on people but when music is influencing crime into their lyrics it becomes an interest and concern for society in general. During the past few decades, music has become increasingly explicit with its references to sex, drugs, and violence. Many people have been shaped by it in different ways. Throughout the years music has changed the way its influenced people. Some people listen to music because they are bored or just because†¦show more content†¦Yet it is still well received and becoming very popular in todays society. Now a days you can influence anyone through media, whether it is music or even a music video Anyone can agree that the use of violence in music today is much more prominent than it was many years ago. The Music genre I’m going to focus on is Hip Hop or Rap. My Hypothesis is to compare music from the 1970’s to the 2000’s and prove that Hip Hop is more likely to talk about drugs, sex, and violence in the 2000’s versus the 1970’s and how strong of an influence it has on society. The theory I decided to go with on this research project is the Cultivation Theory â€Å"Which argues media shapes a persons sense of reality because many acquire information through mediated sources rather than direct experience, their world view becomes influenced by these sources. For example people who would be defined as heavy Hip Hop listeners can react to certain situations more violently than they would of without having all the emotional influence from violent hip hop songs. So I want to see if Hip Hop can really be influenced to commit crimes and live the same type of way they hear through a song or treat people the way they hear through a song. Or basically do listeners cultivate or adopt beliefs about the world that coincide with messages they have been hearing. In the 1970’s the Hip Hop culture began in the streets of New York City. One of the first entrepreneurs of Hip Hop was a man by the name of Kool DJ Herc. In